Adding Special Effects in Blog Images

Masking is a brilliant way to make a picture of any type look more attractive. It ultimately became a favorite technique of me as I knew how to mask a image for the first time in photoshop. After a long journey in Adobe Photoshop, I came to blogger and I desired to mask a image in blogger too.
But for the few days I couldn't, but as the day passed on, I ultimately knew how to mask the picture easily in a blogger blog.
Being an excellent designer our job is to provide the best quality things, and mask technique also falls in it. I know that many of you guys may already know about it, but still wide range of bloggers fall in the group who are not aware of it. So i came up with this post.
But before see a LIVE DEMO of masking a image:

So what is your remarks for this. Probably the masked image is better than that of real image. So what are you waiting for. Lets know how to do it: